Accession number
PML 2398
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
A Paris : Chez Claude Barbin ..., 1668.
Credit line
Purchase; De Forest collection; 1899.
Notes
First ed. of first six books. First state.
Verso of leaf ōii uncorrected. See Rochambeau.
Engravings by François Chauveau are printed on text pages.
Signatures: ā⁴ ē⁴ ī⁴ ō⁴ ū⁴ āā⁴ ēē⁴ A-Nn⁴
Last leaf blank.
"La vie d'Esope, le phrygien," pp. [22-49].
Index, pp. [50-56].
Verso of leaf ōii uncorrected. See Rochambeau.
Engravings by François Chauveau are printed on text pages.
Signatures: ā⁴ ē⁴ ī⁴ ō⁴ ū⁴ āā⁴ ēē⁴ A-Nn⁴
Last leaf blank.
"La vie d'Esope, le phrygien," pp. [22-49].
Index, pp. [50-56].
Description
[56], 284, [4] p. : ill. ; 25 cm. (4to)
Provenance
From the De Forest collection.
Binding
Red morocco by Francis Bedford, with green morocco doublures, tooled in imitation of Eve.
Classification
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Department